Caitlin Clark's Fans Increase RESIGNATION calls for Indiana Fever Head Coach Christie Sides 

Drafting a generational player #1 overall to a losing team. You build a team around Clark not have her build around a losing system. Stop hamstringing Clark's athletic ability by making her part of a losing system. The Celtics built their team around Larry Bird.

They can 't accept the fact that if Clark walks away from the league now, the WNBA goes back to irrelevancy.

She needs the team to adapt to CC's play not CC adapt to the way the worst team in the league plays.

Coach Sides looks lost. You don't break a super-star. You draw up plays to capitalize on her talent. Fever needs a coach that knows how to relate to a super-star.

CC won't say a word, she has too much class because of her upbringing. She does her talking on the court where it counts.

If the Coach keeps MESSING WITH THE MONEY --then she gotta GO! Caitlin Clark is the MONEY!!!

As a basketball coach, you never wanted a player to launch a 40 footer, but after watching Iowa and Clark for 2 years, I have to admit Iowa and Clark made me rethink everything! Clark and Lisa Blueder have changed Basketball forever!💚🍀

She does not need to resign... The League and the GM should discipline and kick her butt to the curb for disrespect of the players in front of the media. She has been a failure and a Lottery Draft coach the last 2 years and a career assistant before that. There are many organizations that have heated conversations, but they do it in the privacy of their locker rooms. This coach is way over her head and cannot manage a team with talent. She is also envious of Caitlin and cannot stand being in the shadow. She acting like a drill sergeant, as if she is going to tear Clark down and rebuild her in her own mold. This coach cannot stand the heat and the generational talent, she definitely needs to get out of the kitchen. Also, every time she speaks, she doubles down on stupid. The team needs an experienced coach who knows how to motivate talented players without throwing them under the bus at press conferences.

she threw CC under a bus before the first regular season game... keep in mind none of us have pretty much ever watched the WNBA.. not a good look for the HC career going forward

It's not that the Fever needs to adapt to Clarks play. The Fever needs to utilize and exploit the play of Clarks shooting, prowess and passing. Its coaching 101, if there is a long distance shooter that extends the floor for the defense to cover, therefore Clarks fellow players will have numerous options to contribute more than previously. Look at Iowa, no really exceptional outstanding players, including Clark. What Clark has is called basketball prowess, the ability to bring the best out in other players. Clarks long distance shooting is going to propel Indiana to the best record in the WNBA this year. Watching the Iowa games, the team did not have much height, but the floor was expanded to where guards were getting rebounds, that is what makes Clark exceptional. Don't adapt, expand on her ability to extend the court.

All time scorer in college.. Coach “ we need to change her bad habits” lol….like what?!?!?

I think alot of people forget Caitlin led the ncca in assists as well as scoring , so if players are open for a better shot they better be ready for a pass!!!

Whoever owns the Indiana Fever you need to reel in your coach

Get rod of coach Sides before she ruins the best thing that ever happened to the WNBA! Sides is over her head and I for one don't trust anything she says

It doesn’t take a rocket scientist to not cook the goose who lays the golden eggs. The team and league should take advantage of Clark’s celebrity to raise awareness of the league. Clark earned her strips playing on Iowa not talent loaded teams like UConn, LSU SC . That’s why she has star power.

It’s sad that CC doesn’t have the coach to get behind her! Not very smart!!!!

Tell the coach the name of the game in any pro basketball league is scoring. Coach, you have the all time college scoring leader in women's basketball. It's not that hard. Don't over think it.

You aren't much of a coach if you are "coaching" on social media. Keep that stuff in the locker room and the court.

This coach should be fired immediately. Only one reason I will watch WNBA because CC.

I think they already have a replacement for Sides. Its Lisa Bluder from Iowa who just retired today, so she is ready to take over and coach this team like it should be coached!!!!!

I want to see Caitlin play her game and I don't know much about the nuances but if she dances, let her dance and do her thing. The coach definitely needs to make that clear and walk back her criticism of Caitlin. And really, she should be the happiest coach in the whole U.S.A.

She should not be criticizing caitlin to the media.She should do it in private.She is not a good coach.If she was,the Fever,would not have had the #1 pick in the draft 2 years in a row.The number one overall pick goes to the worst team.So 2 years in a row,the head coach has been terrible.She needs to go.

I am a black British man, and over here our number one sports is football (soccer). I am not really a big fan on basket ball. I occasionally watch NBA highlights every now and then. In the last couple of months, i have been following WNBA because of CC. That tells you the pulling power of this young girl. The ladies of WNBA must do everything in there power and rally around CC to ensure she becomes a huge success. The future/survival of WNBA rests on her success.

I’m going to watch my first wnba game ever Tuesday. If she turns Clark into a boring player it’ll probably be my last game and I’ll let you wnba purists enjoy the league.

and how did Indiana get the first round pick? The first four picks are determined by a lottery system. The four teams with the lowest cumulative records from the past two seasons are eligible for the lottery. Christie Sides should be thanking her lucky stars she has CC and ask her for advice!

yes she should resign. Like asking Pistol Pete to change his style of play.

Sides REPEATEDLY disparages Clark every time she opens her mouth. FIRE HER.

The coach should just sit back and watch her do her normal thing during preseason to see how she should adjust the structure of the team. Definitely not voice her thoughts on to the public now.

Coach Sides should not make her coaching comments public. Also, It's one thing to try to add a mid-range game to Clark's repertoire, but it should not be addition by subtraction. Leave her long-range game alone.

Stopping someone who broke every record in college basketball, men or women, including Pistol Pete Maravich, from shooting 3 pointers, will be the biggest disaster one can only imagine. There is only one reason people know Pistol Pete Maravich..Michael Jordan, Bird, …they could shoot, and score, and the public knew it.

Build the team around CC, that includes the coaches. Get on board or get gone.

Allowing CC to play her natural playing style is the best way for Indiana to have a winning season. CC will open up immense scoring opportunities with her passing prowess much less her shooting ability. She means a LOT of MONEY to Indiana if she plays CC into her best plays... The rest of her team need to learn how to handle an NBA pass...

So, would it have been right to try and change Larry Bird, Michael Jordan, Pistol Pete? Let her play the way she plays, she isn't number one for no reason.

She coached the worst team in the WNBA and now criticizes the Number One overall pick in the draft?? WTF??

Sides never should have stated what she did publicly!

Christie is a fool. Clark knows what she is doing. She should of had 15 assists. She has no habits you need to break. Extract your head. The only reason you finally for the first time in the history of the WNBA have sell out games is exactly because of the way she plays...

Using a media platform to offer constructive criticism toward a team is one thing, to single out any player turns constructive into destructive criticism!

Say it behind closed doors, and not in the media.

It is now clear why Indy is a losing team. Poor coaching…. A good coach doesn’t assume to undo the best player in a generation, possibly of all time. If CC was an arrogant player who was constantly expressing how superior she is to everyone else and how everyone should bow down because she has arrived to save them, but that is exactly the opposite of what is happening. This actually describes practically every one of her critics!

I do not think Sides is trying to undermine CC of course, I just think because she is green as a HC, she doesn’t understand how to coach a unique talent.

Sides won 13 of 40 games last season. Doc's 3 point average was better than that.

Yeah right it's the pre-season and she's acting like Caitlin Clark is not doing enough to help her team win games

Coach should have saved those comments for a private conversation.

This head coach gas to go just like Michael Jordan's first pro coach wasn't good enough for him I can't believe how she threw Caitlin under the bus she'll be gone by seasons end

Now we're all about to witness how another talent be wasted if Coach can't see a thing.. I wonder if there's anyone from the Organization told Cristie don't waste CC😂😂😂😂😂 She brings Money. She is money. Literally makes a lot of money. Look at those arenas, i heard some games were moved to bigger venues, this girl is legit money magnet.

Indiana has a coach that is either over her head or incompetent. Retaining coaches like her undermine the WNBA. The basics of team and player development is based on having each other back not back stabbing in a press conference. Nike talk to the Fever management help prevent coach Sides from ruining CC career and development for their team. Send Sides packing.

Set more picks for your three point shooter! Sides needs to give CC more support if she wants to win more games for Indy!

She should haave kept her comments private when speaking about a player, if its not 100% positive. That was a mistake. Pull her aside and tell her.

CC is magic🤔Mmm? Magic Clark😉!? Maybe her first act would be to make sides disappear? Let the Magic Ponytail Run!🐎

Caitlyn is intelligent/a fighter/desires to win. She will adjust her game to ensure victory. Teammates need to expect crisp passes as that is one hallmark of Caitlyn's abilities.

This coach needs to go. Is this lady crazy? Isn't the threes the reason they actually picked her up. If she wanted a two point shooter they should've drafted someone else and send Caitlin to a team that would appreciate her skills. Sorry for the Fever fans and owners. I guess she is cheap since they aren't paying her millions of dollars which she is worth. Get rid of her the coach and hire the Iowa coach. She knows what Caitlin brings to the game. Sorry for her teammates too. It is her 3's that open up the game for them. A two point shooter won't do it. I think and feel this coach doesn't know how to coach a player like her. She gotta change her coaching style. She gotta go period...

It's the first time I've ever watched WNBA because of Caitlyn Clark. Now who TF is her coach? What a Toxic place

I hear Coach Lisa Bluder is now available! 😂 and she understands fully, you let Caitlin play her game❤

Christie Side you MUST RESIGN NOW as HEAD COACH OF INDIANA FEVER

Change the coach, how about Bluder.

It is bad for the coach because fans were well aware of the "144" difficulty spike that every panelist is suggesting will inhibit her dominance at the next level; however, when you start speaking like she did in the pressers after pre-season games and even dare to comment on anything except your own faults in coaching the roster up to that point, then it is laughable and a definite result of inferior coaching ability. You put that target on your back because if you have one poor showing, every single fan or critic will review the plays you called, the performance of your team, your substitutions and anything related to matchups, lineups, timeouts, and challenges that are all solely the coach's responsibility. If this is what you wish to bring on yourself; and was your goal: congratulations! Otherwise, it is definitely wrong to call out a player that has arguably been the greatest OFFENSIVE TALENT on the history of college basketball in the NCAAW history. After just one game, we all witnessed that what she CAN DO as player will translate on the next level offensively, so we have no real worry and meme'd anybody out there for having doubts or snide remarks towards her. What is common is questioning if she will be unprepared on the defensive end, and a liability and Clark was more than capable of proving herself on that end the next game. Now, we only have one question: what is the formula for winning and repeating a successful program with this "obviously" loaded team on the offensive side. There aren't questions anymore about Clark's transition to the WNBA--she shut those down already to this point--so we are questioning how does the coach now utilize the talent and pace the talent throughout the year as a whole... Frankly, most people are noticing red flags left and right just by watching gameplans that the coach has strict control over and lineups and even offensive sets. Unless Clark is the one that comes up these makeshift lineups and play-calling, you cannot criticize a more than capable player of "how to play" the game when as a coach you have already shown how you can't coach a team with this "same roster" but adding three new players and two rookies to the mix from the last year. You are: 13 wins! You are awful! There's nothing that would be different if this same roster performed horribly under you. You have a horrible track record already set in stone. Boston, Mitchell, Smith, Berger, Hull, Wheeler, Wallace, Saxton, and a DNP candidate are all returning players on your roster. You simply added Katie Lou, Temi as a backup center, and then two rookies: Caitlin Clark and Celeste Taylor. How do you not have ANYTHING remotely resembling any form of offensive game plan already in place for basic game-performance by now? You should have had 4+ years of reviewing your scouting reports of Clark's games already by the time you were even eligible to draft as a top 1 pick. You probably should have been doing that the moment you failed to make any playoff push anyway. Therefore, you should already have an idea of how to calibrate your offensive potential from that to make your team a better team as a whole. Take her strengths, and adapt them to your previous gameplans and then run with those sets; adjust if they can be improved as the year progresses. There is absolutely no excuse why your team cannot score at all in the last minute of a game during a tight game. There is no excuse why your team starts -16 in a game with your starting lineup. You should have already had a concept in place for your team's identity and how it uses a player like Clark to maximize your gameplan. Nobody on TV saw that in the second game and absolutely was outraged by your post game statements. So, now instead of looking at the win as a win, they all review the game in stretches and see that as a coach you were flabbergasted by the other team's head coach, they saw you were getting demolished in offensive play calls, they saw how incapable your lineups looked, they saw how poor some sets seemed and why there was mostly static plays going on. Contrary to the opposing team's performance, they could notice effective play calls that allowed them to scorch your defensive mismatches for a 70% field goal percentage. Only one player missed any shots, to be honest. They saw how the other coach took out their first and second string and then played the third strings. They saw the same in the previous game where your offensive outburst from Clark put you in position to break away in offense, but you couldn't run any semblance of offensive playcalling from your roster despite having like 9 returning players on your roster from last year! It is now entirely on your shoulders to show a presentable debut of your team that people with two eye sockets can tell has three highly capable offensive players that demand attention, so defensive schemes will leave someone else open to have a free shot. As a coach, we expect some semblance of an actual play-call that exhibits that in action. We gotta see some consistency in your sets near the end of the game otherwise as a coach you are absolutely wasting the team's potential.

Just tell the coach to shut up, And let Caitlin play basketball. damn.

I just got hired as Golden State Warriors head coach. The first thing I'm going to do is reign in Steph Curry. No more three pointers, just lay ups and 10 footers! And no dancing with the mascot. LOL

I don’t think she should resign but she needs to let her play her game . For many , many reasons

Coach should a saying we used in the USNAVY, “PRAISE IN PUBLIC, CRITICIZE IN PRIVATE”, CAIT is awesome, but maybe guidance is needed sometimes. GOD BLESS

Catlin Clark moves the needle and excites fans si you don't fukk with Catlin and Christie Sides of finding that out and should be on a very very short leash

If Sides doesn't rethink her coaching advice, she will find herself in a dumpster fire she created !

Should the coach resign? That's absurd. Are you sports fans at all? Let the coach and players and owners get used to each other for a bit. They are figuring it out.

I agree that the coach shouldn't speak criticism in public. Why would you criticise after winning the game? That's celebration time.

Clark will make you rethink everything you thought how basketball should be played, she is like Mozart and everyone else is not! Let Caitlyn be Caitlyn and go win a Championship! That coach is Mozart!😱💚🍀

its not that coach Sides angered fans, she clearly has no idea what she is dealing with. she is too inexperienced to coach at a winning level. she is a losing coach with a losing record and clearly has a losing plan to cookie cut Caitlyn. she needs to go now! the sooner the better

I know of a former Iowa coach who is available just in case.

It's way too early for such criticism by any WNBA coach. Nevertheless, coach Sides should not be criticizing any FEVER player in any public forum. Sides has no tact nor finesse with her team.

I like CC’s “dancing” because she uses the time to analyses the lay of the land to determine weaknesses in the defense and to maneuver the adversaries to different, inferior positions before her decisive attack with her Logo 3s, this, like a skilled warrior which is why her MO brings to mind mythological Amazon female warriors who, when under misguided and weak leadership, such as the kind that Sides is providing now, did not flourish.

Can't be to hard on a coach for some comments. Benefit of doubt she meant well. Nonetheless, that's an inhouse conversation. I also heard that she threw shades at how Iowa coach did not build CC correctly.

That’s like LeBron James coming out of high school and then you’re like I want to change how LeBron play. No, he was draft number 1 because of is play you could have to his game you don’t need to take away from his game she can help to add thing to Clark game

Yes she should. We want to see the Caitlyn Clark show and that's it.

Good/great coaches build around the talent. Mediocre/poor coaches build around THEIR philosophy.

Let Clark play her style because that is what makes her great.

She should resign, sign her college coach. Fans want to see her shoot 3’s, she is responsible for thousands of new viewers, ticket sales, increased tv revenue, more money for everyone, changing a non profitable league to a profitable one, single handed, she has the power to have the coach fired. When Magic Johnson and Larry Bird changed the NBA you did not hear other players complaining about their new found wealth. These complaining players should refuse any raises because of their new found popularity. Get Real! Remember how Mia Hamm changed woman’s soccer, all the girls that benefited from her. Tell Stephen Curry to stop shooting 3’s just when basketball is attracting new viewers, tell the owners to keep losing money just when that is changing, fire that stupid coach.

You get the top pick and you start looking at changing how they play their game, surely if she was the top pick it was because of her existing skill set.

Imagine calling to fire every coach that challenges their players to be better. I for one want CC to be coached hard to reach her full potential.

Fire her immediately

Get rid of this coach she adds nothing but negativity

If you’re only watching the WNBA for one person and don’t care about the rest of the league, then you might as well not watch at all.

The state of sports is so sad that not even the coach of a team can criticize a player without facing backlash from ridiculousness fans. The coach is literally saying that she has the habit of being idle on the court and for her to be an even better player she has to break that habit.

Christie Sides criticism of Caitlyn vs. public reaction to Christie's comments. I'd say the former pales in comparison to the latter. And if I were Christie or the Fever GM, I'd be loving it. Shows a level of public interest that the franchise needs.

I don't think she should resign yet, but she should take notice. Big time pressure, if you thought that CC coming to the WNBA was pressure, it is also pressure to be the coach that is responsible for bringing one of the biggest bball talents of all time into the WNBA and be successful.

Please guys give Coach Sides a chance, we all make mistakes, please dont get her sacked, she will learn and coach Clark better.

This coach may destroy a once in a lifetime talent.

Telling a player what to improve on is not wrong that is what coaches are supposed to do however voicing these observations in a press conference is troubling, is she implying that Clark is not listening or not responding to the coaches I mean what are fans supposed to think when she comes out and sounds upset about what she is seeing in games. A simple “she will improve as she gains more experience” would have been more appropriate. The way the coach approached this is problematic as far as I’m concerned and I don’t blame fans for overreacting. No one is lining up to watch this lady coach.

Coach almost looks like she had negative words prepared. 😳

Let Caitlin shoot her shots and play her daring game! Nobody is paying to see the same old boring WNBA system! The Fever team are not featuring the Caitlin’s ability to shoot and shoot frequently! The ball just gets passed around for the required amount and someone takes a shit that is less than ideal! There are many good shot that were passed over because the required number of passes made yet. The Fever has no play to get anyone s good shit as far as I can see. The ball moves quickly but the players are not helping any teammate get an open shot.

I will sleep better knowing Reggie Miller is the coach

Like Doc Rivers had to go with the Warriors, the Fever will need to bring in someone who can manage Clark’s plus/minue contributions without stifling her.

I wouldn’t say resign but she do gotta evolve with the game

The coach can't even have a opinion. If that be the case, then then you are right. She should resign.

So she has no comments for the other players .. as a team they did what last year?

Iowa fans are showing how much they DON'T know about the pro level. Go back to the college ranks.

What an aweful coach lack discretion ;Keep you coaching in the gymn. Do not coach your players before the world. Resign please 🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉

CC IS NOT THE TEAM, can she play in a system>>>>>

If you TRY to STOP the female Steph Curry from being the female Steph Curry youre gone! 👀

Lets see how things play out. The season is just beginning!

I got the impresssion she has a little animosity toward Clark. I also get the impression she established she was in charge. That being said she is in charge and if she see's where Caitlin can improve ist her job bring it to her attention. I do understand were fans are comming from. I do think the fans should not be asking her to resign. I hope its just growing pains.

Time will tell if Clark's coach is any good. Clark will be on television enough for the world to see. Clark does have new things to learn which she admits, however can the coach get the best out of the fever with two stars on the court?